Full Committee of Education and Labor, 111th Congress
1. Basics The Education and Labor Committee's purpose is to ensure that Americans' needs are addressed so that students and workers may move forward in a changing school system and a competitive global economy. The committee and its five subcommittees oversee education and workforce programs that affect all Americans, from early learning through secondary education, from job training through retirement. Education: The Committee on Education and Labor oversees federal programs and initiatives dealing with education at all levels -- from preschool through high school to higher education and continuing education. Labor: The Committee on Education and Labor also holds jurisdiction over workforce initiatives aimed at strengthening health care, job training, and retirement security for workers.
Qualifications The qualifications of the people on the committee are that they have before and after being appointed onto the committee advocated for bettering education and labor in America. Bills and Works of the Committee
The Committee typically sees bills and holds hearings pertaining to the change in process, regulations and safety of people that work or people being educated.
Currents Bills and Works H.R 6172, Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act This bill was for raising minimum standards and increasing education for concussion prevention and management. H.R. 5663, Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010 This bill was for redesigning regulations for miners’ safety and health to higher standards as opposed to the outdated ones. H.R.5504, Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act This bill was for increasing the quality of children’s lunches to be more nutritious. Worker Health and Safety from the Oil Rig to the Shoreline This hearing was for increasing regulations on workers’ health and safety for working on oil rigs and for workers that are cleaning up after oil-rig accidents.
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3. Leadership Roles Bios and Qualifications
George Miller
Bio
George Miller is the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor. He ran unsuccessfully for his fathers seat on the state senate seat. He was the ranking Democrat on the Education work force. Miller help draft the No Child Left Behind Act. He was forced on pension issues, reinstating Davis-Bacon wage protections for the gulf coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Miller has worked on education Issues such as increasing the funding for the No Child Left Behind Act.
Qualifications
George Miller wrote the bill that increased the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25. He was one of the four original authors of the No Child Left Behind and he is now trying to reauthorize the law to make it more fair, more flexible, and better funded, while adhering to the law’s key goals of accountability, high standards and improved student achievement.
John Kline
Bio
John Kline is a ranking member of the Committee on Education and Labor. Rep. Kline may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees of which he is not already a voting member.
Qualifications
John Kline served as the ranking Republican member on the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee. He co-sponsored the pension reform regulation. He has also authored the legislation to increase the availability of federal education funding at the local level
4. Education issues:
Issue: Except children to come to school prepared to learn but hunger and poor nutrition can present major barriers to their success in the classrooms. And since hunger does not take a summer vacation providing children with year round access to healthier nutritious foods means children wont go hungry just because school is out.
Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act 2010- Will dramatically improve children’s access to nutritious meal, enhance the quality of meals children eat both in and out of school and in child care settings, implement new school food safety guidelines and for the first time, establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in school.
Issue: Every children should be safe and protected while in schools, but in recent investigation by the U.S government accountability office found hundreds of allegations that children have been abused, and some even died, as result of misuses of restraint and seclusion in public and private schools, often at the hands of untrained staff. Things like this were seen to be happening to the disabled children. Unlike hospitals and other facilities that receive federal funding, there are no federal laws that address how and when restraint can be used in schools, and state regulations and oversight very greatly and have often failed to protect children.
Keeping all students Safe Act- The first national effort to address this problem and ensure the safety of everyone involved-both students and school staff.
-Prevent and reduce inappropriate restraint and seclusion by establishing minimum safety standards in schools, similar to protections already in place in hospitals and non-medical community based facilities.
-Require states to do their part to keep children and staff safe in school
-Ask stated to provide support and training to better protect students and staff and prevent the need for emergency behavioral interventions
-Increase transparency, oversight and enforcement to prevent future abuse
The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act-
-Creates 175,000 new service opportunities and rewards Americans for commitment
-Creates new service corps to meet key needs in low-income communities
-Provides incentives for middle and high school students to engage in service
-Make high school students part of solution to challenges in their communities
-Boosts opportunities for disadvantaged and foster youth and Native Americans
Strengths disaster relief service efforts
-Establishes an Alumni Reserve to respond in emergencies
-Bolsters America’s competitiveness
-Expands service opportunities for older Americans and public-private partnerships
-Creates a nationwide community-based infrastructure to leverage investment in service
-Encourages highly skilled professional to help improve global health
-Establishes call to service campaigns
-Recognizes and supports colleges and universities engaged in service
Issue: Found thousands of allegations of child abuse and neglect at residential programs for teens since the early 1990’s, in number of cases this abuse and neglect led to the death of a child.
Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for teens act of 2009-
-Keep teens safe with new national standards for residential programs that are focused on teens with behavioral, emotional, or mental health, or substance abuse problems.
-Prevent deceptive marketing b residential programs for teens
-Hold teen residential programs accountable for violating the law
-Ask states to step in to protect teens on residential programs
Labor issues:
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
Crandall Canyon Mine Investigation
Mine Safety
Combustible Dust
Diacety/Popcorn Lung
Fatal Explosion at T2 laboratories
BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill
BP Texas City Disaster\
Protecting America’s Worker Act
Cintas
World Trade Center Rescue Workers
Reactive Hazards in Responses to T2 Labs Explosion
1. Basics
The Education and Labor Committee's purpose is to ensure that Americans' needs are addressed so that students and workers may move forward in a changing school system and a competitive global economy. The committee and its five subcommittees oversee education and workforce programs that affect all Americans, from early learning through secondary education, from job training through retirement.
Education: The Committee on Education and Labor oversees federal programs and initiatives dealing with education at all levels -- from preschool through high school to higher education and continuing education.
Labor: The Committee on Education and Labor also holds jurisdiction over workforce initiatives aimed at strengthening health care, job training, and retirement security for workers.
Members
Democrats
George Miller, Chairman (CA-07)
Dale E. Kildee (MI-05)
Donald M. Payne (NJ-10)
Robert E. Andrews (NJ-01)
Robert C. Scott (VA-03)
Lynn C. Woolsey (CA-06)
Rubén Hinojosa (TX-15)
Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04)
John F. Tierney (MA-06)
Dennis J. Kucinich (OH-10)
David Wu (OR-01)
Rush D. Holt (NJ-12)
Susan A. Davis (CA-53)
Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Timothy H. Bishop (NY-01)
Joe Sestak (PA-07)
Dave Loebsack (IA-02)
Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Jason Altmire (PA-04)
Phil Hare (IL-17)
Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Joe Courtney (CT-02)
Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01)
Marcia Fudge (OH-11)
Jared Polis (CO-2)
Paul Tonko (NY-21)
Pedro Pierluisi (PR)
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Northern Mariana Islands)
Dina Titus (NV-3)
Judy Chu (CA-32)
Republicans
John Kline, Ranking Member (MN-02)
Thomas E. Petri (WI-06)
Howard "Buck" McKeon (CA-25)
Peter Hoekstra (MI-02)
Michael N. Castle (DE-At Large)
Vernon J. Ehlers (MI-03)
Judy Biggert (IL-13)
Todd Russell Platts (PA-19)
Joe Wilson (SC-02)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05)
Tom Price (GA-06)
Rob Bishop (UT-01)
Brett Guthrie (KY-2)
Bill Cassidy (LA-6)
Tom McClintock (CA-4)
Duncan D. Hunter (CA-52)
David P. Roe (TN-1)
Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-05)
Qualifications
The qualifications of the people on the committee are that they have before and after being appointed onto the committee advocated for bettering education and labor in America.
Bills and Works of the Committee
The Committee typically sees bills and holds hearings pertaining to the change in process, regulations and safety of people that work or people being educated.
Currents Bills and Works
H.R 6172, Protecting Student Athletes from Concussions Act
This bill was for raising minimum standards and increasing education for concussion prevention and management.
H.R. 5663, Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010
This bill was for redesigning regulations for miners’ safety and health to higher standards as opposed to the outdated ones.
H.R.5504, Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act
This bill was for increasing the quality of children’s lunches to be more nutritious.
Worker Health and Safety from the Oil Rig to the Shoreline
This hearing was for increasing regulations on workers’ health and safety for working on oil rigs and for workers that are cleaning up after oil-rig accidents.
2.
3. Leadership Roles Bios and Qualifications
George Miller
Bio
George Miller is the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor. He ran unsuccessfully for his fathers seat on the state senate seat. He was the ranking Democrat on the Education work force. Miller help draft the No Child Left Behind Act. He was forced on pension issues, reinstating Davis-Bacon wage protections for the gulf coast workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Miller has worked on education Issues such as increasing the funding for the No Child Left Behind Act.
Qualifications
George Miller wrote the bill that increased the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25. He was one of the four original authors of the No Child Left Behind and he is now trying to reauthorize the law to make it more fair, more flexible, and better funded, while adhering to the law’s key goals of accountability, high standards and improved student achievement.
John Kline
Bio
John Kline is a ranking member of the Committee on Education and Labor. Rep. Kline may serve as an ex officio member of all subcommittees of which he is not already a voting member.
Qualifications
John Kline served as the ranking Republican member on the Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee. He co-sponsored the pension reform regulation. He has also authored the legislation to increase the availability of federal education funding at the local level
4. Education issues:
Issue: Except children to come to school prepared to learn but hunger and poor nutrition can present major barriers to their success in the classrooms. And since hunger does not take a summer vacation providing children with year round access to healthier nutritious foods means children wont go hungry just because school is out.
Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act 2010- Will dramatically improve children’s access to nutritious meal, enhance the quality of meals children eat both in and out of school and in child care settings, implement new school food safety guidelines and for the first time, establish nutrition standards for all foods sold in school.
Issue: Every children should be safe and protected while in schools, but in recent investigation by the U.S government accountability office found hundreds of allegations that children have been abused, and some even died, as result of misuses of restraint and seclusion in public and private schools, often at the hands of untrained staff. Things like this were seen to be happening to the disabled children. Unlike hospitals and other facilities that receive federal funding, there are no federal laws that address how and when restraint can be used in schools, and state regulations and oversight very greatly and have often failed to protect children.
Keeping all students Safe Act- The first national effort to address this problem and ensure the safety of everyone involved-both students and school staff.
-Prevent and reduce inappropriate restraint and seclusion by establishing minimum safety standards in schools, similar to protections already in place in hospitals and non-medical community based facilities.
-Require states to do their part to keep children and staff safe in school
-Ask stated to provide support and training to better protect students and staff and prevent the need for emergency behavioral interventions
-Increase transparency, oversight and enforcement to prevent future abuse
The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act-
-Creates 175,000 new service opportunities and rewards Americans for commitment
-Creates new service corps to meet key needs in low-income communities
-Provides incentives for middle and high school students to engage in service
-Make high school students part of solution to challenges in their communities
-Boosts opportunities for disadvantaged and foster youth and Native Americans
Strengths disaster relief service efforts
-Establishes an Alumni Reserve to respond in emergencies
-Bolsters America’s competitiveness
-Expands service opportunities for older Americans and public-private partnerships
-Creates a nationwide community-based infrastructure to leverage investment in service
-Encourages highly skilled professional to help improve global health
-Establishes call to service campaigns
-Recognizes and supports colleges and universities engaged in service
Issue: Found thousands of allegations of child abuse and neglect at residential programs for teens since the early 1990’s, in number of cases this abuse and neglect led to the death of a child.
Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for teens act of 2009-
-Keep teens safe with new national standards for residential programs that are focused on teens with behavioral, emotional, or mental health, or substance abuse problems.
-Prevent deceptive marketing b residential programs for teens
-Hold teen residential programs accountable for violating the law
-Ask states to step in to protect teens on residential programs
Labor issues:
Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
Crandall Canyon Mine Investigation
Mine Safety
Combustible Dust
Diacety/Popcorn Lung
Fatal Explosion at T2 laboratories
BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill
BP Texas City Disaster\
Protecting America’s Worker Act
Cintas
World Trade Center Rescue Workers
Reactive Hazards in Responses to T2 Labs Explosion
5. Sites That Might Help
http://edlabor.house.gov/
http://republicans.edlabor.house.gov/
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/committee.xpd?id=HSED